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Get set for College 2025

Access to Law & Policing

By Jayne Harding & Emma Fredericks

Lecturers & contact details

Emma Fredericks - Course leader for Law & access qualifications.

Email: [e-mail]

Jayne Harding - Course leader for Criminal Justice & Policing.

Email: [e-mail]

Why did you choose to study law or criminal justice & policing?

Access to Law modules 2025

Contract Law

HE Study skills 1 & 2

HE Digital skills

Property law offences (Theft & robbery)

Employment law

Police Powers

Sexual offences

Tort

Non-fatal offences against the person

Homicide - murder & manslaughter

Actus reus and mens rea

Ethics 1 & 2

Course information

Timetables:

Delivery of lessons…

• The delivery of the lessons will be mostly face to face.​

• You will get a schedule showing the timing of lectures so you know when to come into college. ​

• If you have an online sessions these must be attended via Microsoft Teams (MS Teams).​

• Please tell us if you do not have access to IT resources at home from 9am-5pm.​

Any questions?

UCAS - December deadline (everything to be completed)

You may choose upto 5 choices in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Research your choices carefully and identify their entry criteria for admission.

For example, University of Nottingham would ask for 145 credits @ Distinction.

Other Universities would ask for lower criteria i.e 104 credits @ PASS or MERIT.

Must be realistic in what you believe you can achieve!

UCAS no personal statements! for entry September 2026

Activity 1 - Have a go at writing/answering the following questions;

Personal statements replaced by 3 questions;

1. Why the applicant wants to choose the subject?

2. How their qualifications and studies have prepared them for the course?

3. What other experiences have they had that demonstrate their suitability?

750 words (4000 characters)

Activity 2 - Contract law & Consumer Rights

Contract law cake - the ingredients to bake the cake!

https://youtu.be/OBpU3xydz50

Bake off failures!

Activity 1 - Contract Law & Consumer Rights

What are the essential ingredients needed to form a legally binding contract? Can you think of any examples?

Can you think of examples from everyday life?

Scenario question - Contract law

Jayden has just finished sitting his A-level examinations. He has his heart set on going to the University of Bristol to study a law degree LLB hons. The University of Bristol has very high entry requirements due to it’s elite status and has made Jayden a conditional offer of A*A*A grades to achieve in his A-level results.

In August Jayden has received his results and he has received A* A, and A. Despite a slight reduction in his grades he phones the University of Bristol and pleads with them to accept his reduced results. They ask to see a copy of his LNAT results and state that they will make their decision based on LNAT grades. Jayden has received his LNAT results and he has scored 90% the top score in the East Midlands region.

Bristol University have made Jayden an offer of a different course, International legal studies BA hons. This is not the course which Jayden originally intended to study and therefore he phones the University to request more information regarding modules, exams etc before he makes a decision. The University has given him a time period of 10 working days to “think things over” and then he must accept/reject directly through the Universities admissions team.

Jayden is unsure of this new course and he takes much longer than the 10 working days to respond to the University of Bristol.

Scenario questions?

1. Does Jayden have a legally binding contract with the University of Bristol at the time of making his application?

1. Does this situation change upon receiving his A-level results? If so why?

1. Explain what is meant by the term consideration? What could be consideration in this scenario?

1. What is meant by a counter-offer? Have the University made him a counter-offer?

Legal case studies:

Read and research the following case studies and be ready to discuss! Can we use any of these cases to help Jayden;

Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Co

Partridge v Crittenden

Hyde v Wrench

Felthouse v Bindley

Fisher v Bell

Stevenson v McClean

Activity 3 - Criminal Justice & Policing

Research the Court Structure in order of priority. Most important Court, followed by the least important!

Use different colours to differentiate between civil and criminal jurisdictions.